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YouTube link . Scott Weaver has spent the last 35 years painstakingly constructing a replica of the city of San Francisco made of toothpicks...

May 10, 2002 SUBJECT: Spending Money When people spend their own money on themselves, they are careful about how much they spend and abou...

According to NOAA's Drought Monitor , 8 states from New Mexico to Florida are experiencing an exceptional drought - the most severe dr...

George Santayana's famous quote referred to "those who do not LEARN from history," not those who do not KNOW historical facts ...

"Tokyo compression," by German-born Hong Kong-based photographer Michael Wolf is a collection of images showcasing local commuter...

I had never heard this interesting story until encountering it at Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog : And this brings us to the a ros...

From the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman : WASILLA — When members of Wasilla High School’s symphonic jazz choir heard Friday it wouldn’t be sing...

YouTube link .  "Come in and be inspired.  There's no sodomy required." The rather startling opening number by Neil Patrick ...

From the Washington Post's " Five Myths about the American Flag " - The Betsy Ross story is the most tenacious piece of ficti...

YouTube link . I probably don't even need to advise you that this compilation is NSFW because about 2/3 of the clips contain profanity,...

Issued by The Åland Islands on June 7, "the design features a small stack of four ridged chips, highlighted and set against a dramati...

I photographed this sign along Highway 70, near the Minnesota/Wisconsin border this weekend.

YouTube link . Excerpts from an article at The Guardian celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the appearance of the dance: The absence o...

Excerpts from The Red Market , a book by Scott Carney, subtitled "On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Fa...

From a report at Wired Science re the motions of a desert plant's seeds: Biologist Matthew Harrington and his colleagues at Germany’s ...